All the salmon counters at all the ESB dams were down again for all of 2021
No salmon counts are available again for 2021 for any of the ESB dams on the Rivers Shannon, Lee, Erne, Liffey, and Claddy. I had previously exposed that all the…
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ESB claims that all the salmon counters at their dams “malfunctioned” in 2020
No salmon counts are available for 2020 for the ESB dams on the Lower River Shannon, River Lee, and River Erne. In the ESB Fisheries Conservation annual report (2020), they…
Parteen Regulating Weir, January 2020
Parteen Regulating Weir, January 2020. This weir severs the Lower River Shannon SAC. For the last few months ESB Networks have been abstracting c.97% of the water in the river…
Sustainable management is not too much to ask for
We will never be able to remove the dams at Ardnacrusha and Parteen – too much development has taken place on the flood plains. I took this drone shot in…
Sixty years of failure at Parteen Salmon Hatchery
The ESB salmon hatchery at Parteen weir is open 60 years this year and over that time it has released c.30 million juvenile salmon into the River Shannon. However, runs…
World Rivers Day 2017
World Rivers Day took place on 24th September 2017 and to mark this day we visited Parteen Regulating Weir to take some aerial photos. The ESB abstract up 400 tonnes…
Study shows dramatic impact of ESB dams on salmon
A new study just published shows that salmon runs on Shannon are less than five percent of what they should be. This is due to the impact of ESB dams. Essentially the salmon…
Parteen Weir: commentary and images
Here are some aerial photos and a video of Parteen Regulating Weir taken during July 2015. The headrace canal which transfers abstracted water to Ardnacrusha Hydroelectric Station is also featured.…
Old River Shannon Foundation 